WOUTER J. HANEGRAAFF CURRICULUM VITAE VERSION 23 NOVEMBER 2015 DATES EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION ACADEMIC PARTICIPATION (LECTURES) OTHER ACTIVITIES DATES - Born 10 april 1961 in Amsterdam (the Netherlands). - 1982-1987: Municipal Conservatory of Zwolle (classical guitar). - 1986-1990: University of Utrecht, Faculty of Letters. Program “Algemene Letteren” (Cultural History); specialization “The role of alternative spiritual movements in 20th-century cultural history”. Diploma (cum laude) in 1990. - 1992-1996: University of Utrecht, Faculty of Theology, dept. Study of Religion. Ph.D. Research Associate. 30 November 1995: dissertation defense (cum laude). Title dissertation: “New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought”. - 1996-1999: University of Utrecht, Faculty of Theology, dept. Study of Religion. Postdoctoral researcher. - 1 sept. 1999-present: University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Humanities, dept. Theology & Religious Studies. Full professor “History of Hermetic philosophy and related Currents”. - 2006: Elected Member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (KNAW). - 2012: Invited Research Fellow Lichtenberg Kolleg, University of Göttingen, Germany (April-June, 2012). EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES Journals - Editor (with A. Faivre and Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke) Aries: Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism, Brill (2001-2010). - Editorial Board Aries: Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism, Brill (2011- present). - European Editorial Board Religion, Academic Press (1999-present) - Editorial Board Numen, Brill (2002-2005) - Editorial Board Esoterica http://www.esoteric.msu.edu (1999-present) - Editorial Advisory Board Journal of Contemporary Religion, Carfax (2001-present) - Editorial Advisory Board Nova Religio, University of California Press (2000-present) - Editorial Board Religion Compass, Section “New Religions”, http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/religion/ (2007-present) - Editorial Board Religieuze Bewegingen in Nederland, VU Uitgeverij (1993-1996) - Member of Research Council of Scripta Classica (2013-). Book Series - Editor “Studies in the History of Religions (Numen Book Series)”, Royal E.J. Brill, Leiden/Boston/Köln (2000-2006). - Editor (with G.W. Trompf, University of Sydney) “Gnostica: Texts & Interpretations”, Peeters, Louvain (1997-2001). - Editor “Aries Book Series: Texts and Studies in Western Esotericism”, Brill (2006- 2010). CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION - International Summer University “Gnosis and Hermeticism from Antiquity to Modern Times”, Amsterdam 1994 (with Roelof van den Broek). - Symposium “Western Esotericism and the Science of Religion”, XVIIth Congress International Association for the History of Religions (I.A.H.R.), Mexico City 1995 (with Antoine Faivre & Karen-Claire Voss). - Symposium “Western Esotericism and Jewish Mysticism”, XVIIIth Congress International Association for the History of Religions (I.A.H.R), Durban, South Afrika 2000 (with Jan A.M. Snoek) - Conference The Varieties of Esoteric Experience, Esalen Institute (California), 8-12 March 2004 [with Jeffrey J. Kripal] - Conference Hidden Intercourse: Eros and Sexuality in Western Esotericism, Esalen Institute (California), 3-8 April 2005 [with Jeffrey J. Kripal] - Conference Hidden Truths, Novel Truths: Fiction in Western Esotericism, Esalen Institute (California), 14-19 may 2006 [with Jeffrey J. Kripal] - Conference Secret States: Altered States of Consciousness and Western Esotericism, Esalen Institute (California), 14-17 May 2007 [with Jeffrey J. Kripal] - ESSWE Session “Western Esotericism and Cognition”, American Academy of Religion, Atlanta, 21-24 November 2015. ACADEMIC PARTICIPATION (LECTURES) 1990 - XVIth Congress International Association for the History of Religions (I.A.H.R.), Rome 1990. [paper “A Dynamical Approach to the Problem of “Post-Gnostic” Gnosticism”]. 1992 - CESNUR (Center for Study of New Religious Movements) International Conference Le défi magique, Lyon 1992 [paper “The Problem of Post-Gnostic Gnosticism”]. 1993 - CESNUR International Conference New Religions and the New Europe, London 1993 [no paper]. - International Conference Religion and Postmodernity, Bristol 1993 [no paper]. 1994 - Conference Nederlands Genootschap voor Godsdienstwetenschap (NGG), Tilburg 1994 [invited lecture “Frazer als (aan)stichter van een nieuwe religie: De jaarfeesten in Wicca”]. - Amsterdam Summer University Gnosis and Hermeticism from Antiquity to Modern Times, Amsterdam 1994 [2 papers: “Romanticism and the Esoteric Connection” and “The New Age Movement and the Esoteric Tradition”]. 1995 - XVIIth Congress International Association for the History of Religions (I.A.H.R.), Mexico City 1995 [paper “On the Construction of ‘Esoteric Traditions’”]. 1996 - International Conference Nature Religion Today: Western Paganism, Shamanism and Esotericism in the 1990s, University of Lancaster 1996 [invited lecture “Reflections on New Age and the Secularization of Nature”]. - CESNUR International Congress Societies and the New Religious Pluralism, Montreal 1996 [paper “Emanuel Swedenborg and Western Esotericism”]. - Colloque Université de Paris III/Sorbonne Nouvelle Symboles et mythes dans les mouvements initiatiques et ésotériques (17ème-20ème siècle): filiations et emprunts, Paris 1996 [invited lecture “La fin de l’ésotérisme? Le mouvement du nouvel âge et la question du symbolisme religieux”]. 1997 - Palladian Academy: 1st Symposium, Novanta (Italië) 1997 [invited lecture: “Justinus Kerner and the Seeress of Prevorst”]. - Université de Lausanne, Dept. interfacultaire d’histoire et de sciences des religions, Zwitserland, 1997 [invited public lecture “The New Age Movement and the Secularization of Western Esotericism”]. - International conference Religion in the Making: The Emergence of the Sciences of Religion. Research Center Religion and Society, Amsterdam 1997 [invited paper “The Emergence of the Academic Science of Magic: The Occult Philosophy in Tylor and Frazer”]. - International conference Magic and Modernity. Research Center Religion and Society, Amsterdam 1997 [invited paper “Sympathy or the Devil: Renaissance Magic and the Ambivalence of Idols”]. - CESNUR International Congress Magic, Millennium, and New Religious Movements, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 1997 [invited public lecture “The New Age Movement”]. - Colloquium Rudolf Agricola Instituut, University of Groningen, 1997 [invited lecture “New Age Religion and Secularization”]. - American Academy of Religion, Annual Meeting, San Francisco 1997 [paper “Theosophy and Magia Naturalis”]. 1998 - SISWO (i.c.w. NVMC/NSV), 8e Sociaal-wetenschappelijke Studiedagen, Amsterdam 1998 [paper “How Magic Survived the Disenchantment of the World”]. 1999 - Fryske Akademy, 1 May 1999 [invited lecture “De New Age beweging”]. - Huizinga Instituut, University of Amsterdam, Onttovering en betovering, 21 May 1999 [invited lecture “The Seeress of Prevorst”]. - Conference Hermetismus als Kulturphänomen in der frühen Neuzeit, Göttingen, October 1999 [no paper]. - Seminar New Age and Globalization, RENNER, Copenhagen 16-17 November 1999 [invited lecture “Prospects for the Globalization of New Age: Spiritual Imperialism versus Cultural Diversity”]. - American Academy of Religion, Annual Meeting, Boston 20-23 November 1999 [paper “Beyond the Yates Paradigm”]. 2000 - Reed College, Portland (Oregon), 5 April 2000 [invited public lecture: “Beyond the Yates Paradigm: The Study of Western Esotericism between Counterculture and Postmodern Complexity”]. - Palladian Academy: 2nd Symposium, Graz (Austria), June 2000 [paper “Lodovico Lazzarelli and Giovanni ‘Mercurio’ Correggio”]. - XVIIIth Congress International Association for the History of Religions (I.A.H.R.), Durban (South Africa), August 2000 [paper “Lodovico Lazzarelli’s Use of Jewish Mystical Sources”]. 2001 - Arizona State University, Phoenix (Arizona). Invited public lecture, 1 May 2001 [“How Magic Survived the Disenchantment of the World”]. - Kalamazoo, 36th Congress on Medieval Studies, 3-6 May 2001 [paper “Defusing Magic: Lodovico Lazzarelli and the Wisdom of Hermes”]. - Université de Lausanne. Invited public lecture, 11 June 2001 [“How Magic survived the Disenchantment of the World”] - Congress Autour de l’oeuvre de Frances A. Yates (1899-1981): Du réveil de la tradition hermétique à la naissance de la science moderne, Paris, Sorbonne, 28-29 sept. 2001 [“La fin de la tradition hermétique: Frances Yates et Lodovico Lazzarelli”] - Congress The Hermetic Imagination in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, University of California, Los Angeles, 5-6 October 2001 [paper “Swedenborg in Oetinger’s Hermetic Imagination”]. - KEYNOTE Leuven Encounters in Systematic Theology III: Developing a Relational Theology, University of Louvain, 6-9 November 2001 [keynote lecture “The Dreams of Theology and the Realities of Christianity”]. 2002 - Conference Secrecy, Histories and Publics, Sweet Briar College (Virginia), 15-17 March 2002 [keynote lecture “Are there Secrets in Swedenborg’s ‘Secrets of Heaven’?”] - CREA –Studium Generale, Religiestudies UvA, Lezingenserie De zeven hoofdzonden en de taal van de moraal, 16 april 2002 [lecture “Kuisheid: De zuivere zonde”] - Voorjaarsconferentie Nederlands Genootschap voor Godsdienstwetenschap, 2002 [lecture on the future of the study of Religion] - Public lecture Graduiertenkolleg Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg 17 June 2002 [lecture “The Hermetic Christ in the Streets of Rome”] - Sixth International Reuchlin Congress: Reuchlin und seine Erben: Forscher, Denker,